Jessica Chastain Debunks Lilandra Rumor; So Who Is She Playing In ‘X-Men: Dark Phoenix’?

Everyone has been pretty convinced that Jessica Chastain (‘The Martian‘,’Mama’) was set to play Lilandra in ‘X-Men: Dark Phoenix‘ and now the actress has gone on record to say we’ve all been wrong. If she isn’t the Empress of the Shi’ar Empire, it is now unclear if this alien race will even be featured at all or if she is just a lesser member of the Empire.

The news came when the actress reposted an image that director Simon Kinberg had shared to celebrate her first day on set. While most actors won’t respond to comments on their pictures, Chastain happily did just that. Here are the image and thread which she shared the news on by simply stating:

With how many rumors heard about the Shi’ar Empire showing up in the movie, I would expect that it will still happen, just not the way we were all expecting. Of course, rumors are just that, and the studio hasn’t confirmed their appearance at this point. The most anyone related to ‘X-Men: Dark Phoenix’ has said on that end of things is producer Hutch Parker stating that it is “certainly a possibility” that the film could go cosmic.

Do you think that this rumor not being true means that we won’t see the Shi’ar in ‘X-Men: Dark Phoenix’? Who do you think Jessica Chastain is playing in the film? Share your thoughts below True Believers!

Stuart Conover

Stuart Conover is a father, husband, blogger, published author, geek, entrepreneur, editor of Horror Tree, horror fanatic, science fiction junkie, lives in a world of comics, and a casual gamer (all of this when his wife lets him of course.) He fell in love with science fiction and horror at the same time while watching the movie Alien at probably far too young of an age while still being extremely impressionable and has been happily obsessed with both since! Around the same time he had also developed an unhealthy addiction to comic books that continues to this day!